All 3 Uses of
ancient Rome
in
I Survived The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79
- CHAPTER 1 — AUGUST 24, AD 79 — 1:00 P.M. — THE CITY OF POMPEII, THE ROMAN EMPIRE†
p. 1..2 *
- Tata was born in Germania, a kingdom just beyond the northern boundaries of this vast Roman Empire.†
p. 16..2
- He could be anywhere in the vast Roman Empire by now, from the rocky cliffs of Britannia to the deserts of Africa.†
p. 18..1
Definition:
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(ancient Rome) Periods of Ancient Rome:
The Roman Kingdom: 753 to 509 BC (from the founding of the city)
The Roman Republic: 509 to 27 BC (with restraints on a rulers power)
The Roman Empire: 27 BC to 476 AD (from the time Augustus assumed absolute powers until the fall of the western empire)
Western and Eastern (or Byzantine or Byzantium) Empires: in 395 AD an emperor left the Western Roman Empire to one son, and the Eastern Roman Empire to another son. The Western Roman Empire was greatly weakened. Rome was sacked in 410 and many think of it as ending in 476 when Germanic allies became unhappy with the emperor and dethroned him. The Eastern Roman Empire survived nearly a thousand years longer until the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.